Apparatus in the National Hydraulics Laboratory, located at the old NBS campus at Connecticut Ave and Van Ness St in Washington, DC

Apparatus in the National Hydraulics Laboratory, located at the old NBS campus at Connecticut Ave and Van Ness St in Washington, DC

Date

1932-11-12

Collection

Hydraulics Laboratory

Description

This image is part of the Hydraulics Laboratory collection. In 1930, Congress authorized the construction of the National Hydraulic Laboratory at the NBS campus. The mission of the laboratory was to make determinations of fundamental data useful in hydraulic research and engineering, including laboratory research relating to the behavior and control of river and harbor waters, the study of hydraulic structures and water flow, and the development and testing of hydraulic instruments and accessories. Federal and state agencies that did not possess the necessary laboratory facilities were able to use the NBS Hydraulic Laboratory to have studies made of structures designed by their engineering staffs. Designs of many structures, such as dams and dry docks, have been improved and simplified through tests of small scale models made in the laboratory. Experimental and theoretical research included: the study of the flow reservoirs of bottom currents of sediment-laden water; the intrusion of s

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